Full Description
This classic reader captures the excitement inherent in the field of sociology with 56 classic and contemporary selections from a wide variety of authors and sources. The reader is organized around basic sociological concepts and connects these concepts to the study of Sociology or our world.
Contents
Bolded entries indicate new selection
Part I: The Discipline of Sociology
1. Sociology as a Passion to Understand, Peter L. Berger
2. The Sociological Imagination, C.Wright Mills
3. Critical Thinking About Statistics, Joel Best
4. Generalizing, Stereotyping, and Social Science, Joel M. Charon
5. Religious Fundamentalism: A Sociological Study, Nancy Tatom Ammerman
Part II: The Perspective of Sociology: The Importance of the Social World
6. Social identity, Richard Jenkins
7. The Importance of Primary Groups, Dexter C. Dunphy
8. Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman
9. Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple,Charles Lindholm
10. Collective Trauma at Buffalo Creek, Kai Erikson
11. The Meaning and Importance of the City, William A. Schwab
12. Society, Social Control, and the Individual, Peter L. Berger
Part III: Social Structure
13. Pathology of Imprisonment, Phillip E. Zimbardo
14. If Hitler Asked You to Electrocute a Stranger, Would You? Probably, Phillip Meyer
15. The Mai Lai Massacre: A Military Crime of Obedience, Herbert Kelman and V. Lee Hamilton
16. Gender as Structure, Barbara J. Risman
17. Four Modes of Inequality, William M. Dugger
Part IV: Social Structure: Class
18. The New American Class Structure, Robert Perrucci and Earl Wysong
19. The Uses of Poverty: The Poor Pay All, Herbert J. Gans
20. Class in Everyday Life, Stanley Aronowitz
21. Inequality in Europe and the United States, James W. Russell
22. The Polarization of Class in the World, Robert Bellah
Part V: Social Structure: Race and Ethnicity
23. Race, Wealth, and Equality, Melvin L. Oliver and Thomas M. Shapiro
24. Occupational Opportunities and Race, Stephen Steinberg
25. Punishment and Inequality in America, Bruce Western
26. Yellow Face: Asian Americans in Popular Culture, Robert G. Lee
27. Children of Immigrants: Adaptation and Identity, Carola Suarez-Orozco
Part VI: Social Structure - Gender
28. The Meaning of Gender, Judith Howard and Jocelyn Hollander
29. The Working Wife as an Urbanized Peasant, Arlie Russel Hochschild with Anne Machung
30. What Marriage Means, Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas
31. The Betrayal of the American Man, Susan Faludi
Part VII: Culture
32. Culture: A Sociological View, Howard Becker
33. The Code of the Street, Elijah Anderson
34. American Culture: Individualism and Community, David A. Karp
35. The American Dream, Stephen J. McNamee and Robert K. Miller, Jr.
36. Cultures of Cruelty, Fred Emil Katz
Part VIII: Social Institutions: Economic and Political
37. The Meaning and Origin of Social Institutions, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann
38. The Institution of Capitalism, Michael Zweig
39. The Rise of Big Business in the United States, Charles Perrow
40. The Dominance of the Corporation, Carl Boggs
41. The Politics of the Contented, John Kenneth Galbraith
42. Government Programs and Social Cohesion, Theda Skocpol
43. Liberal Democracy and Democratic Culture, Larry Diamond
Part IX: Social Institutions: Familial, Religious, and Educational
44. Family in Transition, 2007, Arlene S. Skolnick and Jerome H. Skolnick
45. Family Life and Economic Success, Lisa A. Keister
46. Unequal Childhoods, Annette Lareau
47. The Meaning of Religion,Emile Durkheim
48. Religious Diversity in America, Robert Wuthnow
49. Religious Cults, Steven E. Barkan
50. The Shame of the Nation, Jonathan Kozol
51. The Culture of the School, Maureen T. Hallinan
Part X: Social Change
52. Class, Social Conflict and Social Change, Karl Marx
53. Society and Change, Michel Crozier
54. Social Movements and Social Change, Cyrus Zirakzadeh
55. American Social Trends, Charles L. Harper and Kevin Leicht
56. Globalization, Anthony Giddens
